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NRC looks to leverage previous approvals for large LWRs
During this time of resurging interest in nuclear power, many conversations have centered on one fundamental problem: Electricity is needed now, but nuclear projects (in recent decades) have taken many years to get permitted and built.
In the past few years, a bevy of new strategies have been pursued to fix this problem. Workforce programs that seek to laterally transition skilled people from other industries, plans to reuse the transmission infrastructure at shuttered coal sites, efforts to restart plants like Palisades or Duane Arnold, new reactor designs that build on the legacy of research done in the early days of atomic power—all of these plans share a common throughline: leveraging work already done instead of starting over from square one to get new plants designed and built.
H. Bluhm, G. Fieg, H. Werle
Nuclear Science and Engineering | Volume 54 | Number 3 | July 1974 | Pages 300-316
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/NSE74-A23420
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The neutron spectra on the central axis of a massive block of uranium depleted in the 235U isotope have been measured using spherical proton-recoil and 3He semiconductor-sandwich spectrometers. The experimental spectra are compared to calculated multigroup spectra obtained with a 208-group constant cross-section set which is based on KEDAK cross sections. By parametric variation of all relevant nuclear data, the sensitivity of the spectra to changes in the 238U cross sections is determined. The 238U capture and inelastic scattering cross sections are adjusted to bring the calculations in line with the experiment. It is shown that the resulting adjusted 238U cross sections also lead to considerably better agreement between experimental and theoretical results for other fast assemblies which are sensitive to changes in the 238U cross sections.
